ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,640, issued on July 8, was assigned to KAWADA INDUSTRIES INC (Tokyo).
"Planting container unit and greening method using same" was invented by Shinichi Kawada (Tokyo) and Yasujiro Katsuyama (Kawaguchi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container unit for greening of wall surface and greening method using container unit. The planting container unit has an outer container having an upper-surface and a front-surface opening, an inner container that can be inserted into the front-surface opening of the outer container, and a fixing plate where the inner container is fixed to the outer container. The inner container is capable of hous...